The Raider is quite possibly one of the most loved bags at the Timbuk2 office. The Industrial Designers Society of America has awarded an International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) to the Timbuk2 Mission Cycling Raider Pack, a commuter backpack developed by Timbuk2 in collaboration with San Francisco’s Mission Cycling Club. We couldn’t be more proud. [...]

We recently did a little fix to one of our customers’ old-school classic messengers. As part of the Life-Cycle program, we’ve grown our repairs service to keep old bags on the road even longer. After receiving the repair, we received this note from our happy customer and we had to share it. The picture is [...]

Golden beaches, blue skies, palm trees and a boardwalk full of beach cruisers, skate boards, runners, walkers, iron pumpers, buskers, surfers and for better or worse, seriously everything in between. This is Venice Beach. Now dust off them sandy feet, sandals optional, jump on your cruiser and pedal your way a few blocks from the [...]

Check out the amazing submissions to our ‪#‎beersinbags‬ contest on Instagram! Congratulations to our winners @quick_jon @mozzie_puggle and @harvydanger and thanks to all that entered! We couldn’t help but award prizes to a few runner ups.

Our COO’s 17 year-old daughter, Ali Meneghetti, is more than halfway through a 3,210 mile, 44 day, coast-to-coast bike trip from Charleston, SC to Los Angeles. Accompanied by two leaders and 9 other high school students, she’s averaging over 80 miles a day on Overland’s American Challenge. This is a no support ride so every [...]

Our Seattle store, and its crazy cast of characters turned 1 year old in last month! Thinking about what we could do that would not be just another birthday party, we sauntered down to Albert’s favorite burger joint, Lil’ Woody’s to conjure up some ideas. If y’all are in Seattle, you know this spot is [...]

We’ve partnered up with ArtCrank for a series of shows in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Portland and we couldn’t be more excited. What began as a small show in 2007 in Minneapolis has now become a traveling road-show to celebrate bike culture through art. ARTCRANK is a poster show about bicycles dedicated to [...]

Tis the season for le Tour, and that means the launch of another limited edition Timbuk2 Tour de France Messenger. Our original series of Tour de France messengers celebrated the four jerseys of the Tour — maillot jaune (yellow) for the overall race leader, maillot vert (green) for the overall points leader, maillot blanc (white) [...]

Every year, our very good friends north of the border at Mountain Equipment Co-op, aka MEC, host a series of bike events called Bikefest at each of their 17 stores in Canada. It usually also kicks-off the official start of summer bike riding season and in general, an awesome day outside to nerd out on [...]